Tiki Facts

The tiki culture is more about a style that originated in American restaurants, clubs, and bars in the 1930s than it is about the actual history of the tiki. Though inspired by Polynesian mythology and artifacts, such as the Tiki, a wood or stone humanoid carving, the tiki culture itself began as a theme and grew into a fad that spanned many decades, including the time period of World War II, the addition of Hawaii as a US state, through the pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s, and into today.